Today, as we prepared to
post an article about the utter hypocrisy of The Hague
"tribunal's" concern for Slobodan Milosevic's
health, this "trial of the century" exploded
and died.

Now the question is, will it linger in
death?

The "tribunal" passed away
during the testimony of Rade Markovic, former head of the
Department of State Security of the Serbian Ministry of
the Interior (the Serbian Secret Service). Markovic (pronounced
MARK-oh-vich) was cross-examined today, 26 July, by
Slobodan Milosevic.

Mind you, the prosecution called Mr.
Markovic to testify. He was "their" witness.
That is, for some reason they expected him to testify in
their favor. And yet, he testified against them...

1) Mr. Markovic testified that the
Milosevic government did *not* try to drive ethnic
Albanians out of Kosovo during the NATO bombing. Quite
the contrary:

"'I told (local officials)
that presidential orders are that the flow of
refugees must be stopped,' Markovic said during cross-examination
by Milosevic..." (AP, 26 July 2002)

2) Mr. Markovic testified that
Milosevic came down hard on anti-Albanian hate crime:

"'More than 200 criminal
charges were filed against members of the police, and
I think a similar figure stands for the army,' said
Markovic..." (AP, Ibid)

Some news wire services reported the
above points while trying to downplay their significance.

Earlier, Mr. Markovic had testified
that starting in 1997 Mr. Milosevic did not exercise
direct, daily control of security police. This testimony
was misreported in the press. We shall clarify that when
we publish the transcripts of Mr. Markovic's testimony,
which will be soon.

But no wire service reported the most
shocking revelation.

Prior to being brought to The Hague,
Rade Markovic was held in a Belgrade jail for the past 17
months.

Today at The Hague, Mr. Markovic
testified that he was tortured in that jail to force him
to agree to give false testimony against Slobodan
Milosevic.

He also testified that the current
Belgrade security police, who work in closest cooperation
with "tribunal" prosecutors, offered him and
his family a change of identity and a comfortable new
life in a foreign land if he would lie against Slobodan
Milosevic.

Mr. Markovic said that, at one point,
pro-NATO Serbian Interior Minister Mihailovic and his
Secret Police chief, Goran Petrovic, showed up at the
jail with a squad of secret police. Mr. Markovic said
they removed him from the facility - itself a violation
of Serbian law - and took him to a private dinner where
they made him the offer of a new identity with a luxury
life - and no more torture - in exchange for false
testimony.

The torture and the bribes would
explain why the Prosecution had reason to believe Mr.
Markovic was "their" witness.

Stunned to see Markovic defy him,
Prosecutor Jeffrey Nice (sic!) asked so-called judge
Richard May to do something to stop it. And May did try,
interrupting the cross-examination to argue that since
"We are talking about Kosovo," the issue of
Markovic being tortured to give false testimony (about
Milosevic's role in Kosovo) was irrelevant.

As of this writing, not one English-language
wire service has reported Markovic's shattering
accusations or the amazing response of "judge"
May.

Why not?

Could it be because there is no way for
them to spin these charges in favor of the "tribunal"
...And thus the charges can't be mentioned.

Doesn't this support our own charge,
that the Western media has been the agent of a massive
anti-Yugoslav disinformation campaign? Is there any other
way to explain their not mentioning that the head of
Milosevic's secret service was called to testify against
Milosevic and instead testified that he had been tortured
to lie?

WHO IS CREDIBLE AND WHO IS NOT

What we find in the wire services is
negative spin about Markovic, a blackout regarding his
torture, and lies.

If Rade Markovic so lacks credibility,
why did your "tribunal" call him as a
prosecution witness? Indeed, why did they call him as the
last prosecution witness before the summer break?

Didn't your side call him because they
thought he was theirs? Now, why would they think such a
thing, Mr. Dicker?

Rade Markovic was never Slobodan
Milosevic's political opponent.

So why was your "tribunal" so
confident? Why was Mr. Nice so surprised?

Why would the "court" expect
Rade Markovic to cooperate? Perhaps they were thinking
that he'd had certain experiences in jail and therefore
knew what was in store for him if he defied them. Perhaps
the flunkies in Belgrade exaggerated the extent of their
success persuading Markovic to cooperate. Flunkies will
do that to impress the home office.

Is that why your associates trusted him
to cooperate? And is that why you and they were stunned
when he didn't, so now you must sputter about Markovic
not being credible - and him your own witness!

Why doesn't the media report that Rade
Markovic named the two US/West European agents -
Mihailovic and Petrovic - who oversaw his torture?

Why doesn't the media broadcast the
news - the scoop! - that instead of ordering an immediate
investigation and putting Mr. Markovic under protection,
instead of taking these minimal steps in accord with most
basic justice, instead "judge" May told
Markovic to stop wasting time with irrelevancies?

And as for your own credibility, Mr.
Dicker, why don't you demand an investigation of this
charge of torture in this "trial of the century"?
Aren't you Human *Rights* Watch? And if you don't demand
an investigation because you *know* he's lying, why don't
you share with the rest of us how it is that you know?

In the same dispatch as Dicker's "non-credible"
remark, Agence France Presse reported that:

"Markovic has been temporarily
released from prison in Serbia in order to testify at
the trial." (AFP, 16 July 2002)

This is called lying by half-truth. AFP
left out the fact that Mr. Markovic is now being held in
Scheveningen, where the Nazis tortured leading members of
the Dutch Resistance during World War Two.

So tonight Rade Markovic is at the
mercy of those whom he defied.

As we shall document in a forthcoming
article about the unbelievable "suicide" of
Slavko Dokmanovic, Serbian leaders have died under
suspicious circumstances while incarcerated at The Hague.
In giving this testimony, Rade Markovic has risked
torture and death. [Note: the Dokmanovic article can now
be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/gilwhite/d1.htm ]

And what did Rade Markovic gain? A nice
job with Milosevic? Good treatment for his family in a
Belgrade now controlled by NATO and the Western secret
services? Rade Markovic had nothing whatsoever to gain in
making these charges and he had everything to lose.

His action today went beyond mere
credibility. It was magnificent.

GANGSTERISM

But what of the New World Order?

On 28 June 2001, Slobodan Milosevic was
kidnapped from Belgrade.

The Yugoslav Constitutional Court had
forbidden his extradition: it would violate the Yugoslav
constitution. Nevertheless the "tribunal" and
its Belgrade stooges kidnapped him. National
constitutions don't count under the New Order. (1)

Mr. Milosevic has been abused in the
former Nazi jail at Scheveningen. At times he has had
lights on him, 24 hours a day. He has been denied the
basic right to meet advisers of his choice.

One of the authors of this article,
Nico Varkevisser, was denied permission to see President
Milosevic just this month, despite being the Dutch
coordinator for Mr. Milosevic's defense.

Chris Black, head of Milosevic's legal
defense group, was banned from visiting Mr. Milosevic by
the "tribunal", one of whose officials
suggested at a press conference last year that the
criterion for deciding whether a lawyer could see Mr.
Milosevic was whether the "tribunal" believed
he or she would have a "good effect" on the
prisoner.

President Milosevic is forbidden access
to the Internet or a library. His research tool is a pay
telephone near his cell.

For five months we have seen an endless
parade of blatantly disreputable "witnesses."
Some are officials of NATO governments or organizations
associated with NATO. It was NATO that bombed Yugoslavia
including Kosovo. And NATO spokesperson, Jamie Shea, once
boasted that NATO runs the "tribunal." (2)

Other "witnesses" have been
Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists, or members of their
front groups. That's whom the Milosevic government was
fighting on the ground while NATO bombed from the air...

And now we have this case, the abuse of
Rade Markovic.

Really, is there a greater disgrace,
morally or professionally, than to be part of this "tribunal"
or to defend it in the media or through some phony human
rights group that fawns and scurries to serve the
gangster bullies?

Slobodan Milosevic and Rade Markovic
are imprisoned in Scheveningen. On a stone in that former
Nazi prison a member of the Dutch Resistance engraved the
following words:

"In deze bajes zit geen gajes,
maar Hollands glorie, potjandorie."

which means:

"In this prison there are no
criminals, but only the glory of Holland."

Let the NATO masters be careful how
they treat Slobodan Milosevic and Rade Markovic.

2) For the press conference in which
Jamie Shea indicated that NATO controls the "tribunal,"
see "Official Statements Prove Hague 'Tribunal'
Belongs to NATO" athttp://www.icdsm.com/more/belongs.htm

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